So I remember watching this Colbert Report in a motel room in Saskatchewan, about a guitar duel he had with the Decemberists. I forgot to watch the whole thing, and am now kicking myself (especially since all the youtube videos were removed recently). The back-story is hilarious and stems from that little fat kid doing his imitation of a Star Wars lightsabre fight...

(Following taken from Wikipedia)

"Greenscreen Challenges

On the August 10, 2006 episode, Stephen Colbert was shown jumping around in front of a greenscreen wielding a lightsaber, a parody of the Star Wars Kid internet phenomenon. This was done as part of the Better Know A District segment when he visited California's 6th congressional district where Star Wars creator George Lucas lives. This footage was subsequently edited by fans and their results were posted on the Internet, primarily YouTube. Colbert featured some of these clips on the August 21 episode and issued the "Greenscreen Challenge" to the public — a contest for who can make the best video from footage originally filmed in the August 10th episode. Lucas himself made an appearance on the October 11 episode to showcase his entry.

When indie rock band The Decemberists shot a music video in front of a green screen and asked people to finish the video, Colbert took them to task for copying his idea and started his second green screen challenge. The Decemberists then challenged Colbert to a guitar solo challenge. For a few weeks this became a focus of the show. On December 20th 2006, Chris Funk, lead guitarist for The Decemberists, came to the show for the guitar solo challenge. The contest was called the "Rock and Awe: Countdown to Guitarmageddon". After Funk played Colbert came on stage with a centuple neck guitar. After playing two notes, he pretended to cut his hand and insisted that he could no longer play. Peter Frampton then came on and played a solo for Colbert. A panel of three judges, New York governor Eliot Spitzer, Rock critic Anthony DeCurtis, and chairman of the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at New York University, Tim Anderson, voted on whose solo they thought was the best. DeCurtis voted for the Colbert/Frampton team, Anderson voted for Funk, and after Spitzer revealed that Colbert had tried to bribe him during the commercial break he withdrew himself from judging. The deciding vote was given to Henry Kissinger, who made a few short appearances earlier in the show starting the contest. Kissinger said that the American people had won and Colbert deemed himself the winner. As a prize he got The Crane Wife, The Decemberists' new album."


Here's some videos from the episode starting with the Decemberists' Chris Funk...




Stephen Colbert (and his understudy) ripping up the stage...



and the judgement of the people...




cheers, I-wish-I-had-a-5-neck-guitar Ange